This paper is a NBER working paper in October 2010. It uses a new data set from an online adoption facilitator to estimate the preferences of potential adoptive parents over children relinquished for adoption. There seem to be significant preferences on girls, unborn children close to birth and against African-American children. All of which vary in magnitudes across adoptive parents’ type: heterosexual, homosexual, and single women.
Authors: Mariagiovanna Baccara, Allan Collard-Wexler, Leonardo Felli, Leeat Yariv
Link: http://www.nber.org/papers/w16444
Authors: Mariagiovanna Baccara, Allan Collard-Wexler, Leonardo Felli, Leeat Yariv
Link: http://www.nber.org/papers/w16444